Photo / AP This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the port of Beirut in Lebanon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, the day after a massive explosion. "Yesterday's catastrophe in Beirut adds to what has already been a terrible crisis for the people of Lebanon compounded by an economic collapse and a surge in Covid-19 cases. 8/22/2020 1:00 AM PT The blast killed more than 113 people including at least one Australian and wounded thousands more, leading to a two-week state of emergency to be declared in the area.
He instantly started getting calls from his parents and family, but thought immediately the city had been hit by an air strike. "We heard a sound that was really, really loud and disturbing. It's estimated up to 300,000 people have been made homeless with between $3 billion and $5 billion worth of damage done in the city. We saw shattered glass all over the city. This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows the port of Beirut in Lebanon, top, on July 31, 2020, and the same area, the day after a massive exposition. 8/22/2020 12:30 AM PT We're heartbroken.
When combined with fuel oils, ammonium nitrate creates a potent explosive widely used in the construction industry, but also by insurgent groups such as the Taliban for improvised explosives. 8/22/2020 12:01 AM PT On Wednesday a frantic search for survivors of the blast was under way, with footage of one man emerging from the rubble after 10 hours shared online. Bakhour said he was traumatised when he took his phone out and started filming the aftermath. "Unicef confirms its commitment towards the people of Lebanon, the authorities and all partners on the ground. "It was really shocking and terrifying," he said. There was blood all over everyone, it was really terrifying." The pandemic already meant that hospitals are overwhelmed, and frontline workers are exhausted. Lenarcic said the Czech Republic, Greece and the Netherlands have already committed to the operation, while France, Germany and Poland were offering assistance. I looked up in the sky and I saw the big purple orange cloud after the explosion," he told news.com.au. Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device. Photo / AP This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damaged area outside of the port of Beirut in Lebanon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, the day after a massive explosion. He called it "an immediate first step".
I was traumatised. People were shouting.
Every single shop was blown out. "There were glass injuries and other minor injuries as a result of that, but we thank heavens that those injuries were not more serious, although staff have, of course, received medical care."
8/22/2020 8:20 AM PT Dozens have been killed in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Tributes and offers of aid, rescue workers and food have flooded into the country since the blast, after an appeal from Lebanese leaders. Photo / AP The destruction of Beirut, the hundred people dead, it's traumatising." 8/22/2020 6:39 AM PT The normally odourless substance has caused explosions before, including at a Texas fertiliser plant in 2013 that killed 15 and was ruled deliberate, and another at a chemical plant in Toulouse, France in 2001 that killed 31 people but was accidental. Photo / AP A statue representing the Lebanese expatriate is seen in front of a building that was damaged by an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. 8/22/2020 10:47 AM PT before and after of Beirut's main port after Yesterday's explosion..This is the moment before the explosion when the fire was ongoing at Amateur photographer, Farouk Bakhour, 17 was 10 minutes away from the port at McDonald's with his friend and cousin when the explosion hit and was about to eat when the car started shaking.